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A06800	The sicke-mans comfort against death and the deuill, the law and sinne, the wrath and iudgement of God. Translated out of Frenche into English, by I.E.; Consolation et instruction aux malades contre l'appréhension. English.	L'Espine, Jean de, ca. 1506-1597.; Eliot, John.	1590 (1590)	STC 17238; ESTC S119213	84,176	220

cannot stande steadfast one minute of an houre strengthen vs by thy holy spirite and so arme vs with thy spiritull giftes and graces that wée may constantly perseuere in the faith without the which it is not possible to please thée Strengthen vs then day by daie in the same faith whereof we will make confefsion vnto thée with heart and mouth saying I beleeue in God the Father c. Then may they looke howe the sicke person doth vsing gracious and Christian spéeches vnto him but if no signe of amendement appeare soone after they may find out a fit time●…to aske of him if he would willingly heere to speake of God and to heare his worde whilest hée is in perfect sense and memorie then may they beginne this little Catechisme which followeth A SHORT CAtechisme to refresh the memorie of the sick person in points of Christianitie and to make him chieflie vnderstand the mysterie of our Redemption The Minister N. BRother euerie man who knoweth himselfe well and séeth of what condition and qualitie hee is must surely confesse that albeit he be created after the image and likenesse of God yet that he is conceiued and borne in the sin●…e of olde Adam and so made a poore and miserable sinner ignorant vnconstant and full of all iniquitie and by consequent subiect to all miseries afflictions and aduersities and finally to death Of all which sinne is the cause the which God wil not suffer to bee vnpunished but afflicteth vs therfore daily and doth plague and punishe vs in this worlde least hée should condemne vs with the worlde Wherefore déere brother N. haue patience in your sicknesse and affliction and you shall possesse your soule in spirituall ioy Confesse your sinne and accuse your selfe before the maiestie of Godvnto whome you must cast vp your eyes to contemplate him by faith confessing your faith with heart and mouth before all this assistance of your faithfull Brethren For it is written With the heart man beléeueth vnto righteousnesse and with the mouth man confesseth to saluation Hearken then to these questions that I shall demand of you and answere to them faithfully according to the vnderstanding that God hath giuen you But if you cannot answere by reason of your féeblenesse I will answere for you and it shall suffice vs verie well to vnderstande your meaning and the constancie of your faith in the which you must liue and die Nowe I must first aske you wherefore and to what end were you created in this world The Sicke To know God The Minister Was it necessarie for you to know God S. Yea verily for séeing that he is my soueraigne God without the knowledge of him sure I had béene more miserable then the brute beastes M. Séeing that you know God you know well that he is power wisedom and infinite bountie one God in thrée persons the Father Sonne and the holy Ghost The onely God that A braham Isaac and Iacob haue worshipped in spirit and truth The onely eternall God who hath created heauen and earth and all thinges therein contained Is not the knowledge that you haue of God such S. Yes M. But so simple knowledge of God is it sufficient to bring you to life euerlasting S. Uery hardly For it is life euerlasting to confesse and to know one onely God and him whom hee hath sent his onely Sonne for euer our Lorde Iesus Christ. M. Wherefore is it necessarie for you to confesse and know the Lorde Iesus Christ S. Because I must recouer in Iesus Christ all that I lost in my selfe by the sinne of old Adam in the which I was borne and conceiued therefore it was méete for my saluation that Iesus Christ verie God and verie man inuesting our flesh should giue me of his grace and fauour againe that which I had lost in Adam M. Uerie well saide And therefore was Iesus Christ conceiued of the holy Ghost and borne of the virgin Mary to purge and sancttifie you but you for your part were conceiued and borne in sinne and of sinfull parents Wherefore you must confesse that without Iesus Christ you had remained a poore and miserable sinner iudged to eternall death S. So in déed I had But I firmely belieue and confesse that this good Iesus Christ hath reconciled mee to God his Father M. But how hath he reconciled you to God the Father S. By his death and passion in shedding of his most precious bloude for to deliuer mee from euerlasting paines This good GOD Iesus Christ hath suffered for mee vnder Pontius Pilate manie afflictions iniuries and tribulations This Iesus Christ was crucified for mee as one accursed vppon the trée of the Crosse to deliuer mee from the eternall cursse vnto the which Adam had made me subiect This my Sauiour Iesus Christ was verily buried to burie with him all my sinnes to the ende that they shoulde not bee imputed vnto mee before God This is my Lorde and Sauiour Iesus Christ who descended into hell suffering an extreame anguish and pangue for the time to deliuer mee from eternall paines of hell M. All this that you haue now confessed of Iesus Christ is it sufficient to saue you S. No for the holie scriptures must bee in all thinges fulfilled For what had this profited mee that Iesus Christ was borne crucified dead and buried and gone downe into hell onely for mée and if hée had not rose againe Wherefore I belieue and confesse that my Lord my heade and Sauiour Iesus Christ is risen from the dead to make me rise againe with him as one of his little members into euerlasting life M. Consequentle it is writen that he is ascended vp into heauen sitting now at the right hand of God his Father But what profit get you by his ascention S. My Lord my heade and Sauiour Iesus Christ is ascended vp into heauen to make me ascend after him for where the head is the members are also and I constantly belieue that sitting at the right hand of God his Father he is mine aduocate intercessor and mediator towards him assuring me that nothing may hurt me he being both mine aduocat and Iudge Wherefore I néede not to feare the day of his iudgement when he shall come to iudge the quicke and the dead for I belieue and confesse with a stedfast beliefe that there is no iudgement or 〈◊〉 for them that are faithfull members in Iesus Christ. M. Who hath giuen you the grace to vnderstand and doe these things S. It is by the grace of the holy Ghost one onely God with the Father and the Sonne by whom wee receiue all these gifts and graces which are offered vnto vs in Iesus Christ. M. Séeing y ● you haue already cōfessed y ● you are one of y e mēbers of Iesus Chrst it followeth then that you are incorporate also into his church the which you

of Almightie GOD among them That after these spirituall exercises to the which hee ought chieflie addict●… himselfe on the Sabboth daie as to heare Sermons and Exhortations with feare and reuerence to bée assistaunt in all humilitie at the confessions prayers and thankesgiuings that are made to GOD for all the assemblie hée hath not employed the rest of the time to visite prisoners to comfort the sicke to inquire after the poore and helpe to reléeue their necessitie Then when wée haue briefly discoursed vnto the sicke person the faultes that he maye haue committed agaynst the commaundementes which are in the first Table wée must goe vnto the seconde and doe also in the lyke manner 5 First that he hath not yéelded such honour and reuerence vnto his superiors nor shewed his obedience so dutifully and readily nor lastly had so great feare to offend as God doth command in his lawe And if at anie time he hath performed his dutie toward them then it hath béene rather sleightly and more for fear of punishment if he shoulde haue neglected it then for anie respect that he bare them in conscience or desire that he had otherwise to obey vnto God therein That he hath not alwaies praied so duly vnto God for their health and prosperitie to direct them by his holy spirite in all their counsels and giue them grace so to order themselues in all their actions by his holy word and generally to blesse and guide them in all their waies as he is bound by the expresse commandement of God That he hath not spoken of them at all times reuerently as his dutie is and if in his presence some haue spoken euill of them he hath held his tongue and answered nothing for them at all That he hath not thought so reuerently of his Pastors who haue had charge of his soule to giue vnto it the spirituall food that he hath alwaies respecte●… theyr authoritie hearkned to their voice taken their good lessons obeied vnto the true doctrine that they preached and bended his necke willingly vnder the swéete yoake of Iesus Christ that they haue laide vppon him in his name 6 That he hath not loued his neighbours as himselfe desiring and procuring their good as well as his owne That hee hath hated them when hee thought to receiue some domage or iniurie by them desiring their death and some ill hap to befall them That he hath desired sought means to be reuenged of his enemies litle regarding how God hath forbidden it reseruing vnto himselfe the appeale and vengeance of all iniuries done vnto him his children and seruants That he hath not taken pittie of the poore nor done what hee coulde to helpe with his goods to nourish cloath and harbour them and to aide them with necessarie things for their comfort and solace in their miseryes and calamities wherewith they are compassed in rounde about That hée hath not resisted the wicked and vngodly which did oppresse them and employed all his power and meanes that he coulde make to defend them from the violence and outrage that is offered them That hée hath not reioyced at the prosperitie of his neighbours but hath bin icalous and enuious of their felicitie when he hath séene God hath blessed them and preferred them in anie higher degrée then himselfe 7 That he hath not kepte and possessed his vessell that is to saie his bodie in honour and holynes as hee ought to doe nor considered that it was the temple the which God by his holie spirite had consecrated vnto himselfe and that hée ought for this regard to kéepe it from al filthines and pollution That hee hath not kepte his eies from wanton looking so carefully as hee ought but in stead of curning them aside to auoid such sightes hee hath let them gaze and runne after their owne lusts and wantonnes That he hath not so chas●…ned brought his flesh vnder as he ought to make it obedient to the Spirite in all things That he hath fedde himselfe to daintie and hath not alwayes vsed such sobrietie and abstinence as is requisite to represse his passion and to quench the heate of his concupiscence That by deuises letters presents laughters lookings dauncings iesture and immodest mouing of the bodie hée hath made attempt to defile the chastitie of his neighbours wife daughter or maide seruant That in his fashion of apparelling himselfe he hath sought rather to trimme vp the outwarde man thinking thereby to please the world then by a modest shew and behauiour of himselfe in his manners and apparell to edifie the Churche of God That he hath not bene carfull inough to kéepe the chastitie of his eares and tongue neyther to speake or heare anie dissolute or dishonest purpose 8 That he hath coueted to enrich him selfe siby nister meanes That in the trafique and affaires that he hath had with his neighbours he hath not alwaies vsed that vpright dealing iustice sinceritie and equitie that God commandeth according to the rule of humane societie that God will haue kept and obserued amongst all men That he hath béene readie in time of dearth and famine to enhance the price of his wares and marchandise so to make his owne profite by the publike miseries and calamities of many That he hath reserued and locked vp in his coffers caues and garners the surplus of his goods that God hath giuē him for the maintenance of himselfe and his family being due vnto the poore robbing and defrauding thereby those vnto whom it did of right appertaine That not considering at all that godlines with a contented minde as the Apostle saith is great riches and therefore it should suffice vs to haue our clothing and foode and that onely which is néedfull for our bodies hee hath not thought himselfe to be rich if besides this hee haue not many superfluous things That he hath not béene liberall nor readie to giue of his goods to whosoeuer should aske him considering and beléeuing that it is a more blessed thing to giue then to take That he hath not paide his worke men euerie daie theyr wages but hath made them staie till the morow 9 That he hath not loued the truth in word and déed doing nothing foolishly and vnaduisedly but shewing a grauitie and sinceritie in all his affaires customes and countenances which should be worthie a man of truth and sinceritie That in him there hath béene false shewes and disguising to exalte and magnifie his vertues or els to hide and excuse his vices by some counterfaite colours That he hath not béene so constant to confesse defend the truth against the blasphemers and enimies of the same nor so valiant to fight against those that by lyes and errors séeke to impugne the same as he ought to be That vpon enuie and mallice hée hath gone about to backbite and speake euill of his neighbors falsly condemning them in their actions that are not blame-worthy séeking by false accusations to obsure the glorie